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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Raccoons need no elaboration. They’re raccoons.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Literally the first rule of Raccoon Club. You don't talk about Raccoon Club.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

They know what they did.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Raton-Voleur. In french, thieving ratlets.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Diebbar in German - thief bear

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

i've never heard this word and i cant find it on the internet. the german word for raccon is waschbär (washing bear) afaik

actually, the official french word for raccon also seems to be raton laveur (washing) and not voleur (stealing), but i dont speak enough french to know if they are called raton voleur in some dialect or slang

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also washbear (pesukarhu) in Finnish!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Also in Danish (vaskebjørn)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's a regional expression

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you encountered raccoons? I've met racoons they'll steal everything from you in a heartbeat, and the mask is a dead giveaway. You think the guys roommate would complain about the raccoons of they came by to do his laundry instead of stealing all his stuff. Laveur is just a typo, Erwin Guttenburger admitted it in 1678 that he tripped while putting the letters in the press for the wildlife almanach. It went out as Raton-loveur at first. Correcting the error would throw the whole books layout out of alignment so the next edition was changed by replacing the O for an A, to put an end to that weird new fetish that was gaining popularity among the literate elite.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

But the are definitely called "Müllpandas" which literally translates to trash pandas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The umlaut police have been notified of your egregious transgression.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No it's "raton laveur" which roughly translates as "washing ratlet"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Raccoons sound like dinasaurs killing each other in a black and white movie no joke they are not quiet beasties

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What the fuck is a raccoon?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

It's a washing bear.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It's a dog that hunt primarily human gorbage.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Imagine being a social worker trying to find people housing and one of the guys in the tent city tells you he already rents a place and just wanted see what living in the park was like.